I have
Gifted a Giving Key
With the word
BELIEVE
My Story
This past Thursday my baby brother took his own life. After years of struggling with his demons, the kind, goofy, carefree, and loving father of two, and baby brother to me, let his demons win in one last attempt to have a day in the life he had felt he no longer had control over.
My world has been turned upside down and healing is a long way off. While this is all unfolding in my world, my best friend of many many years is struggling to stay sober as she fights to regain custody of her beautiful children. It’s not happening fast enough for her and I’m watching her quickly unravel.
Her baby brother also took his own life 6 years ago and she’s attempting to keep her sh!t together to support me while I grieve. Today I gave her my small but mighty Giving Key in hopes of reminding her to believe in the unknown. To believe in herself, her strength, her resolve, her capabilities, to believe that her impact and importance is SIGNIFICANT and she is needed here and present.
To believe that she can move mountains and she will if she just keeps putting one foot in front of the other. These are things I would give absolutely anything to say to my little brother today, but that opportunity has passed. So I turn to my friend and I will tell her every single day for the rest of her life.
Jennifer Hooper
